Magnifying Glass
Search Loader

Author: Simon Barnes

Support
RUPERT PEARCE joined Inmarsat in 2005 as Group General Counsel. Inmarsat is the world”s leading mobile satellite communications provider and recently underwent a $1, 500 million leveraged buy-out by Apax and Permira and subsequent $3, 000 million IPO on the London Stock Exchange. Inmarsat is now well-established in the FTSE 250. Prior to joining Inmarsat, Rupert was a General Partner at Atlas Venture, the leading transatlantic venture firm, responsible for corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions and special situations. He also served as Atlas Venture”s European COO. Prior to Atlas Venture, Rupert was a partner at the international law firm Linklaters, specializing in corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, technology and private equity. Rupert has therefore experienced private equity and venture capital transactions from the perspectives of investor, adviser and member of management. As a founder of Out-Take Limited, an on-line publisher, he has also dabbled in entrepreneurship. Rupert holds a First Class MA in Modern History from Oxford University and won the 1995 Fullbright Fellowship in US Securities Laws, studying at Georgetown Law Centre, Washington DC. SIMON BARNES is Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre, and Deputy Director of the Full Time MBA programme at the Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London. He teaches electives in new venture creation and venture capital finance on the MBA, MSc Finance and MSc Health Management as well as courses for the faculty of Imperial College”s science and technology departments. His research at Imperial focuses on technology entrepreneurship and venture capital, with an emphasis on the development of university spin outs and technology ventures. Simon has six years of hands on experience in the venture capital industry, first with the transatlantic firm Atlas Venture and most recently with GIMV Venture Capital where he invested in early stage biotechnology companies. He has been a board director of several VC backed ventures, and lived through two M&A transactions at board level. Simon received a first class honours degree and a Ph D from The University of Cambridge. He holds an MBA with Distinction from the Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London, and was the winner of the European MBA Business Plan of the Year Competition in 1998.




13 Ebooks by Simon Barnes

Rupert Pearce & Simon Barnes: Raising Venture Capital
Offering a deep insight into the venture capital deal-making process, Raising Venture Capital also provides valuable introduction to the subject. The book is practical in focus but based on sound …
PDF
English
DRM
€50.99
Simon Barnes: Prophet and Loss
In 1915 the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves (later to become The Wildlife Trusts) published a list of 284 places in Britain and Ireland ‘worthy of preservation’ as permanent nature …
EPUB
English
DRM
€5.61
Simon Barnes: Hong Kong Belongers
Memories of expat life in pre-handover Hong Kong.Lyrical, wry, amusing, deceptively gentle, Simon Barnes’s second novel packs a powerful punch after it has crept up on the reader with the narrator’s …
EPUB
English
DRM
€4.99
Simon Barnes: Miss Chance
A wonderfully engaging novel about a man and the horse he falls in love with – the idiosyncratic Miss Chance.’Get a motorbike. Get laid. The order doesn’t matter.’When teacher Mark Brown’s celebrated …
EPUB
English
DRM
€4.99
Simon Barnes: Rogue Lion Safaris
A funny, romantic, evocative novel set against the safari tourism business in East Africa, written by an award-winning journalist.After the death of his beloved, bankrupt gambler of a father, Dan …
EPUB
English
DRM
€4.99
Simon Barnes: On Horseback
Simon Barnes is the leading sports writer on horses in Britain. This is a selection of his work.Whether writing in The Times about the extraordinary racing operation of Sheikh Mohammed, or the …
EPUB
English
DRM
€12.49
Simon Barnes: Epic
This may conceivably be Barnes’s best work yet Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail ‘;For 30 years I was the voice of sport at The Times but that’s enough about me. What matters is sport.’ This is an …
EPUB
English
DRM
€10.71
Barnes Simon Barnes: Sacred Combe
Reflections on the natural world and our place within it from one of our finest natural history writers nature writing at its very best.We’ve all got one. A secret, special place. Hidden. Enclosed. A …
EPUB
English
DRM
€10.00
Simon Barnes: Losing It
To understand Anna Karenina, Mellors, Molly Bloom, Dante, Romeo, Juliet and Bridget Jones you must also have loved and lost and won. To understand sport in the greatest arenas of them all you too mus …
EPUB
DRM
€9.99
Barnes Simon Barnes: Meaning of Birds
One of our most eloquent nature writers offers a passionate and informative celebration of birds and their ability to help us understand the world we live in. As well as exploring how birds achieve …
EPUB
English
DRM
€11.26
Simon Barnes: History of the World in 100 Animals
So, so good! …More gems than a pirates chest … science, art, history, culture – its epic and mammoth, a repository of all our truths through their lives Chris Packham A powerful and fascinating …
EPUB
English
DRM
€22.96
Simon Barnes: The Green Planet
Praise for The Green Planet (BBC One) ”David Attenborough”s gobsmacking, awe-inspiring return” The Guardian ”The Green Planet reveals the secret lives of plants in the same way The Blue Planet op …
EPUB
DRM
€19.99
Simon Barnes: Vom Glück einen Vogel am Gesang zu erkennen
Warum singen Vögel? Was versuchen sie zu sagen? Warum bedeutet es uns so viel, ihren Gesang zu hören und zu verstehen? Vom Rotkehlchen bis zur Nachtigall, von Frühjahr bis Winter, vom Unterschied …
EPUB
German
€15.99